Claire Wahmanholm

Meltwater (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, the organ and the tissue / and the cell, the membrane and the organelle.



Once there were oarfish, opaleyes, olive flounders. Once the oxbows were not overrun with nitrogen. Part requiem, part bedtime story, Meltwater narrates the awful possibility of doom as well as the grim temptation to numb ourselves to it. Prose poems melt into erasures, erasures swell into lush catalogs. Within this formal ebb and flow, Claire Wahmanholm explores both abundance and annihilation, giving shape and music to our shared human anxieties. What does it mean to bring children into a world like this one? A world where grenades are the only kind of fruit we can still name? Where lightning can strike over / and over without boredom or belief and nothing / is saved? Where losses, both ecological and personal, proliferate endlessly?

Here, a parent's joy is accompanied by the gnaw of remorse. And yet, Wahmanholm recognizes, children bind us to the worldto its missiles and marvels, to the possibility that there is indeed grace worth suffer[ing] the empty universe for.

If we are going to worry, let us also at least wonder. If we are going to be seized by terror, let us also be seized by the topaz sky and the breeze through it. A glittering, kinetic testament to vanishingof biodiversity, of climate stability, of a sense of safetyMeltwater is both vindication and balm.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781639551026
• Artikelnr.: 67294631

Autorenporträt

Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Meltwater, Redmouth, and Wilder, which won the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2019 Minnesota Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, Blackbird, Washington Square Review, Copper Nickel, Beloit Poetry Journal, Grist, RHINO, Los Angeles Review, Fairy Tale Review, Bennington Review, DIAGRAM, The Journal, and Kenyon Review Online, and have been featured by the Academy of American Poets. She lives in the Twin Cities.

Inhaltsangabe

O 
Hunger
You Will Soon Enter a Land Where Everything Will Try to Kill You
Glacier
Meltwater
M
In a Land Where Everything is Already Trying to Kill Me, I Enter a New
Phase of My Life in Which It Would Be Very Bad If I Died
Meltwater
Metamorphosis with Milk and Sugar
In a Land Where Everything is Trying to Kill You, I Teach You to be an
Autotomist
Poem That Cries Wolf
Glacier
Meltwater
Starling
More Rabbits
Primer
The Child Puts Apples into the Mouth of the Tree
Meltwater
The New Horticulture
Glacier
Apotropaei
In A Land Where Everything Is Trying To Kill Me, I Consider Letting It
The Sun, the Ship
Meltwater
At the End We Turn Into Trees
Glossary of What I’ll Miss
The New Fear
The New Language
Glacier
Meltwater
P
Deathbed Dream with Extinction List
If Anyone Asks
In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children
Poem With No Children In it
Meltwater
The Future
Meltwater
:
The Empty Universe
XYZ
 
Notes
Acknowledgments